On Sat, 28 Mar 2015, Wietse Venema wrote:

> Postscreen does DNSXL lookups in parallel, and they make take several 
> seconds to complete, so the occasional delay or lost packet does not 
> adversely impact postscreen's performance.
> 
> Postscreen database updates must be fast because they are synchronous. 
> With dynamic DNS, any delay or lost packet must not cause postscreen to 
> grind to a halt.
> 
> Either one would have to make the Postfix table infrastructure 
> asynchronous, or one would have to implement a new caching daemon that 
> completes dynamic DNS updates in the background.  proxymap is not such a 
> program.

I see, it's more complex than I thought. Thanks for the explanation!

Best regards,
Jozsef
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